I had a few errors when I tried to install it last night, I couldn't get past the language download....grrrr

Tried again this morning and it's all good. I really do like this kb. I was used to swype too, but always switched it up with Swiftkey once in a while. They both have their strengths and weaknesses. I am happy as long as I am not using the stock Sammy kb!! That thing needs to be redesigned.

Re: Swiftkey Flow Beta

Working great so far, having a few issues here and their but it's bata. So i cant complain, very fast typing and looking promising. Plus love the one hand typing. Let's see bb10 beat this with their keyboard one handed. I don't think it's going to happen. Just showing me that bbs one handed use gimmick turning in to be nothing special. More of a catch up game to me. Hopefully they have something else worth while.

Re: Swiftkey Flow Beta

I am not trying to start a flame war, just my opinion. From watching bb10 demos, I can't see you typing faster on then SwiftKey Flow right now. I might be wrong though have to use it first personally. Also it's not Google Android, SwiftKey is a 3rd party app developer, Google has their own version of swipe keyboard integrated in jellybean 4.2, which is also decent.

If I can get a hold of Flow, I might just get rid of Swype (gasp!), especially if they roll Flow into Swiftkey 3. Wow, now that would be something. Right now, I use Swype for quick, one-handed entries, and Swiftkey for longer stuff (like working on my book).

If I can get a hold of Flow, I might just get rid of Swype (gasp!), especially if they roll Flow into Swiftkey 3. Wow, now that would be something. Right now, I use Swype for quick, one-handed entries, and Swiftkey for longer stuff (like working on my book).

I actually already did - unlike Swype you can use both the swipe motion or regular typing (which isn't always workable on Swype itself) - straight typing works just the same as Swiftkey 3.

Yeah but the learning model is only one part of the keyboard (it wouldn't even have to be the complete autosuggestion feature). They could use an api call and still use other sources for the other portions of the keyboard....

A couple hiccups that bug me though (but hey, it's a beta release so I'm sure they'll address the issues)...

Swipe gesture for capitalization and loop/squiggle for double letters are missing. Instead it relies on Swiftkey's prediction engine. More often than not, it correctly predicts the word you intended to swipe based on the context of the sentence. Unfortunately, there's no way for it to know every proper noun or acronym, so you get the occasional misfire in capitalization. Luckily this is aided by the keyboard's ability to learn new words as you use it; so after you tap out a word that didn't swipe properly, it remembers it the next time. With double letter words, sometimes it can miss the distinction between "to" and "too" if the sentence begins with the word "too" because there's no context for it to make the distinction. I guess once I get used to swiping the space-bar it will recognize the context and correct it (only just now occurred to me that I should try that).

Aside from those two points, and the removal of swiping left to delete full words (which will probably return since it's the number one requested feature on the Swiftkey forums), the keyboard is top notch. It's still fully functional as the traditional Swiftkey keyboard which has always be superb, and the flow is really smooth. I've been craving a tap/swipe hybrid keyboard for quite some time, and this fits the bill very well.

Aside from those two points, and the removal of swiping left to delete full words (which will probably return since it's the number one requested feature on the Swiftkey forums), the keyboard is top notch. It's still fully functional as the traditional Swiftkey keyboard which has always be superb, and the flow is really smooth. I've been craving a tap/swipe hybrid keyboard for quite some time, and this fits the bill very well.

Haha, I know, right? I must have tried swiping back dozens of times wondering why the words wouldn't delete. At first I thought it was me.

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